Termux is an awesome new open source app for Android which provides you with a basic Linux shell. It also has a tiny repository with some packages and one of those packages is proot which you may remember from my GNURoot tutorial.

GNURoot way of getting Fedora on your unrooted Android phone still works, but this way is much cleaner and we have more control over what’s going on. I’ve been using this for a couple of days and it has been really stable and fast.

and wait. If everything goes well, you can enter Fedora chroot with a simple fedora.

This is a script I wrote last night and it is available on GitHub. I really learned a lot from previous crouton-fedora and GNURoot attempts, and I hope the script will work for you. Here it is with some comments so you can see what it does: